Archives for 2014

July 23, 2014 by rememberlenny

~10% conversion rate.

These are the reports from the email newsletter. Notice the reddit traffic. I think it’s actually higher than 26%. I spent time last night and this morning doing some reddit pumping.

I posted the links to the /r/NYC subreddit. This is a good target because the group is localized and self selected. I got 12 signups in the process.

Apart from reddit, I tweeted the link to the landing page on my publicartfound twitter account.

Feedback from a friend said that the link was not very informative. This is unintentional. It reflects the lack of clarity I had when first making the newsletter.

https://blog.rememberlenny.com/2014/07/23/10-conversion-rate-these-are-the-reports-from-2/

Hemingway App is your personal editorial team

July 23, 2014 by rememberlenny

This is one of my favorite services. I use this after I write blog posts, to cross check the ‘readability’. This tells you where your sentences can be rewritten. Its available online for free and now there is a 5$ application that can be used off-line.

Highly recommended.

Hemingway App is your personal editorial team

John Hersey’s Hiroshima (1946)

July 23, 2014 by rememberlenny

ABSTRACT: REPORTER AT LARGE. Entire issue devoted to the telling of the effects of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Follows the fate of six survivors and describes their experiences. The survivors were: Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works; Dr. Masakazy Fuji; Father Wilherlm Kleinsorge, a German priest of the Society of Jesus, the Rev. Kiyoshi Tanimoto, pastor of the Hiroshima Methodist Church, and a Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakimura, a tailor’s widow and her three children.

John Hersey’s Hiroshima (1946)